Before Hollyoaks, there was Brookside - a gritty Channel 4 soap set in Liverpool that tackled the kind of ground-breaking stories you wouldn't find on the cobbles.
From the first pre-watershed lesbian kiss to a harrowing domestic abuse storyline that ended in murder, the series by Grange Hill boss, Phil Redmond, didn't shy away from breaking television taboos.
It ran for a 21 years from 1982 to 2003, drawing in nine million viewers at the height of its popularity - a record for Channel 4.
But what happened to the stars of the show whose on-screen antics kept viewers gripped for more than two decades? Anna Friel - Beth Jordache Beth was involved in two of Brookside's biggest plots during the early 1990s.
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